Support government to fight terrorism, cleric tells traditional rulers

The Grand Administrator and Director, Supreme Board, Rosicrucian Order AMORC, Kenneth Idiodi has called on government, traditional rulers, religious leaders and all citizens to join the moral campaign to stop all acts of terrorism, killing, banditry robbery and other acts of violence in our country

He said this yesterday at the AMORC Public Lecture on Spirituality for Social Justice held at ISIS Hall /Premises, Ilupeju, Lagos. According to him, all civilized persons throughout the world condemn extra judicial killings.

He stressed that the challenge of entrenching good moral values in the society cannot be addressed by government alone but by everyone working together to raise a new generation.

“We must begin to teach our children eternal values through the ages at prenatal and postnatal stages of their development. This way they will grow up with these values making the next generation much greater than us,” he said.

He further attributed the spate of vices in the society to the increasing cases of social injustices, adding that as poverty, discrimination, inequity increases the chances of terrorism, criminality and all forms of social unrest would increase.

According to him, “when society denies some people of their fair share of goods and services while others get more than they deserve an imbalance is created in its internal structure. This underlying imbalance manifest outwardly as all kinds of societal ills.”

Also speaking at the event, the first National Vice President of the University of Lagos Alumni Association, Dr. Fassy Yusuf stressed that that the missing link between leadership and spirituality in the country is values, adding that we urgently need value based leadership and value based spirituality to make our society better.